Tag: fail

  • Roomba confused by office chair

    Watch as a Roomba is helplessly “trapped” by the legs of an office chair. No, nothing was stopping this Roomba from turning around and zipping off in the other direction aside from its own stupidity. The fact that a Roomba can’t escape such a devious non-trap is evidence against robots enslaving humanity anytime soon. Or…

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  • False alarms: how the city should have responded

    On Sunday, the entire city heard the warning system (“air raid” siren”) that’s normally tested on Tuesdays at noon. Apparently this was due to human error. Which is fine, really. People make mistakes. What is NOT fine was what they did next: nothing. Absolutely nothing. Instead of using the AlertSF system to notify people that…

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  • The Treats of San Francisco

    A Quinn-Martin production! Wait… what? This is some kind of cheesy Muni ad for buying a Muni Passport and visiting Ghirardelli Square. It has nothing to do with Karl Malden and/or Michael Douglas.

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